Comparison

Hedgewars vs Fruity Islands Lite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Hedgewars

Engage in hilarious, turn-based strategy combat with a team of armed hedgehogs. Utilize a vast arsenal of weapons and tools to outmaneuver and defeat your opponents across diverse, destructible landscapes. Enjoy single-player or multiplayer battles with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategy combat
  • Hilarious artillery action
  • Up to 8-player local multiplayer
  • Randomly generated maps
  • 55+ devastating weapons
  • 25 game modifiers
  • Extensive team customization
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Hedgewars, it's a Blast! Description: This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play - hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons - sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude! In other words Hedgewars is a turn based strategy, artillery, action and comedy game, featuring the antics of pink hedgehogs with attitude as they battle from the depths of hell to the depths of space. As commander, it's your job to assemble your crack team of hedgehog soldiers and bring the war to your enemy. Each player controls a team of several hedgehogs. During the course of the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use whatever tools and weapons are available to attack and kill the opponents' hedgehogs, thereby winning the game. Hedgehogs may move around the terrain in a variety of ways, normally by walking and jumping but also by using particular tools such as the "Rope" or "Parachute", to move to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each turn is time-limited to ensure that players do not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving. A large variety of tools and weapons are available for players during the game: Grenade, Cluster Bomb, Bazooka, UFO, Shotgun, Desert Eagle, Fire Punch, Baseball Bat, Dynamite, Mine, Rope, Pneumatic pick, Parachute. Most weapons, when used, cause explosions that deform the terrain, removing circular chunks. The landscape is an island floating on a body of water, or a restricted cave with water at the bottom. A hedgehog dies when it enters the water (either by falling off the island, or through a hole in the bottom of it), it is thrown off either side of the arena or when its health is reduced, typically from contact with explosions, to zero (the damage dealt to the attacked hedgehog or hedgehogs after a player's or CPU turn is shown only when all movement on the battlefield has ceased). * Hilarious and devastating turn based combat for up to 8 players * Local multiplayer with optional AI opponents * Battle on an infinite number of randomly generated maps with over 31 environments, or choose from 48 set image maps * Utilise 55 (and counting) devastating weapons! Defeat your foes with simple weapons like Grenades or take it to the next level and trash entire landscapes with weapons like the Melon Bomb or Piano Strike * Play the game your way, with 25 different game modifiers, tweak almost every aspect of the match * Customize your team, with over 280 costumes, 32 graves, 13 forts, 100s of flags and unique voice packs * Huge battles with up to 64 hogs

About

Fruity Islands Lite

A fast-paced arcade game where players catch falling fruit while avoiding obstacles. Collect power-ups and keys to raise sunken islands. This version offers two levels, with more available via in-app purchase.

Highlights
  • Catch falling fruit
  • Avoid obstacles
  • Collect power-ups
  • Unlock new levels
  • Easy and Hard modes
Features
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Fifteen years ago, you raised the islands of Fruity Bay from the sea with your catching skills. Now a strange fog has rolled in overnight and swallowed the bay whole — grab your basket, catcher. You're needed once more! Fruity Islands Lite is the free return of the 2011 original: the same fast-paced game of fruit catch with a twist, rebuilt in glorious HD for today's iPhones and iPads. Catch the falling coconuts. Dodge the fireballs. Bounce fruit off your basket's rim and juggle it right back at the giant crab who rules Coconut Island. Five levels, a boss battle, a hidden golden key — a complete island adventure, free from your first catch to the crab's last stand. • Coconut Island, complete: five levels and the crab boss • A hidden golden key... and a fog that hides six more islands • Fruit Coins and armable boosts • Crisp HD art and the original island tunes, on iPhone and iPad • No ads. Ever. Love it here? The rest of the archipelago — seven islands, seven bosses, secret islets, treasure perks and something stirring beyond the bay — awaits in Fruity Islands HD.

Screenshots

Hedgewars3 screens
Fruity Islands Lite3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hedgewars at none against Fruity Islands Lite's 1. Hedgewars also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 189 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fruity Islands Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hedgewars asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hedgewars ships an update monthly, Fruity Islands Lite every 189 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hedgewars versus Fruity Islands Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHedgewarsFruity Islands Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews60.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 189 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size181 MB131 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAnton MalmyginVegan World

Customer experience

Hedgewars

All ratings25 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.0%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative38.0%

Fruity Islands Lite

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Bugs and requests

Hedgewars

Reported bugs

117 issues
  • No instructions, no tutorial
  • Too many bugs
  • UX needs a lot of work
  • Unplayable on mobile
  • Instant crash when portrait orientation
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  • Crashes a lot
  • Crashes after loading a game
  • Game freezes
  • Vertical jump button useless
  • Not working on iPhone 4s
  • Zoomed, not playable
  • Screen freezes
  • Zoomed in screen, no controls
  • Unplayable
  • Zoomed in view of part of screen
  • Crashes constantly
  • Weird bug
  • Buttons disappear, zooms weirdly, visual glitches
  • Starts loaded and freezes
  • Crashes
  • Game screen only shows up on a fourth of the actual screen
  • Keeps kicking me off when I use certain weapons
  • Crashes 4 out of 5 games
  • Crashes even worse with the update
  • Freezes every time I try to play
  • Crashes halfway through
  • Won't start a game
  • Freezes up
  • Unresponsive
  • Crashes all the time
  • Crashes to much
  • New version doesn't let me battle or make new teams
  • Mobile version still premature and buggy
  • Sound driver buggy
  • Crashes the game occasionally
  • New weapon select menu is harder to use
  • Freezes after each game
  • Weapon icons hard to distinguish
  • Game doesn't start
  • Tons of bugs
  • Rough quality
  • Confusing
  • Not fun
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game makes zero sense
  • Crashes
  • Freezes
  • Bug filled
  • Crashes after loading
  • Game freezes
  • Won't work
  • Freezes up
  • Unresponsive
  • Crashes all the time
  • Crashes to much
  • New version doesn't let me battle or make new teams
  • Mobile version premature and buggy
  • Sound driver buggy
  • Crashes the game occasionally
  • New weapon select menu is harder to use
  • Freezes after each game
  • Weapon icons hard to distinguish
  • Game doesn't start
  • Tons of bugs
  • Rough quality
  • Confusing
  • Not fun
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game makes zero sense
  • Crashes
  • Freezes
  • Bug filled
  • Crashes after loading
  • Game freezes
  • Won't work
  • Freezes up
  • Unresponsive
  • Crashes all the time
  • Crashes to much
  • New version doesn't let me battle or make new teams
  • Mobile version premature and buggy
  • Sound driver buggy
  • Crashes the game occasionally
  • New weapon select menu is harder to use
  • Freezes after each game
  • Weapon icons hard to distinguish
  • Game doesn't start
  • Tons of bugs
  • Rough quality
  • Confusing
  • Not fun
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game makes zero sense
  • Crashes
  • Freezes
  • Bug filled
  • Crashes after loading
  • Game freezes
  • Won't work
  • Freezes up
  • Unresponsive
  • Crashes all the time
  • Crashes to much
  • New version doesn't let me battle or make new teams
  • Mobile version premature and buggy
  • Sound driver buggy
  • Crashes the game occasionally
  • New weapon select menu is harder to use
  • Freezes after each game
  • Weapon icons hard to distinguish
  • Game doesn't start
  • Tons of bugs
  • Rough quality
  • Confusing
  • Not fun
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game makes zero sense

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add multiplayer feature
  • Improve menu to match PC version
  • Enhance jumping
  • Add possibility to exit current level/return to main menu
  • Create own maps and weapons
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  • Add network mode and AI mode
  • Improve UI
  • Add mini map
  • Fix sound driver
  • Improve stability
  • Make weapon icons easier to distinguish
  • Play against someone over Wifi or bluetooth
  • Add dual controls
  • Add retina support

Fruity Islands Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Hedgewars

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Fruity Islands Lite

One-time1
  • Unlock the islands$0.99

Questions

Is Hedgewars free?
Hedgewars is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fruity Islands Lite free?
Fruity Islands Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hedgewars or Fruity Islands Lite have ads?
Neither Hedgewars nor Fruity Islands Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hedgewars or Fruity Islands Lite?
Hedgewars ships an update monthly, and Fruity Islands Lite every 189 months. Most recently, Hedgewars was updated on November 1, 2026 and Fruity Islands Lite on November 1, 2026.

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